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North Carolina Psychiatric Association
Ureh Nena Lekwauwa, MD, DFAPA, is the current medical director of North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abus...view moreUreh Nena Lekwauwa, MD, DFAPA, is the current medical director of North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services.
Chelsea L. Neumann, MD, is currently a PGY-5, first-year fellow at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program. During her last two years of psychiatry residency at Duke University, she worked in Durham, North Carolina, at Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers providing psychiatric treatment to individuals with substance use disorders, during which time she collaborated with Dr. Ashwin Patkar to complete a review of the current literature outlining the effects of cannabis on physical and mental health. She has continued research interests in the effects of cannabis use on medical and psychiatric conditions and is currently researching the correlation between the quantity of cannabis use and depressed mood in adolescents.
Heather N. Oxentine, MD, is currently a PGY-4 psychiatry resident at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine. Her clinical experience includes research related to cannabis use either as a primary or as a secondary diagnosis. Further, Dr. Oxentine is interested in continuing research related to political and medical implications regarding the legalization of cannabis.
Ashwin A. Patkar, MD, DFAPA, MRCPsych, DFASAM, is professor of psychiatry and community and family medicine at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Patkar is the medical director of Duke Addictions Program and Duke Center of Addictive Behavior. He has over twenty years of clinical and research experience in addictions.
Thomas Penders, MD, MS, DLFAPA, is associate professor of psychiatry at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. He is the president-elect of the North Carolina Psychiatric Association and the Addictions Committee chair.
Diana O. Perkins, MD, MPH, DFAPA, is professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is one of the founders and is the medical director of Outreach and Support Intervention Services (OASIS), one of the first Coordinated Specialty Care programs serving persons in the early stages of a psychotic disorder or at high risk for a psychotic disorder. The mission of OASIS is to foster sustained recovery and prevent disability from psychosis. Her research interests focus on discovering factors that contribute to psychosis vulnerability and finding better treatments for psychotic disorders.
P. G. Shelton, MD, is an assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine.view less
Books by North Carolina Psychiatric Association
Cannabis Use and Mental Health: A Critical Review of Risks and Benefits